Hi, What graphics driver are you using? I had a similar problem on a Sawtooth with an ATI 9000 with the text displaying as a very light purple. The only solution I found was to use the NoAccel option for the "radeon" driver in my xorg.conf. Of course, after that I had a slow as molasses desktop.
Regards, Dan --- On Thu, 1/17/13, David Adcock <david.adc...@lonestarbio.com> wrote: > From: David Adcock <david.adc...@lonestarbio.com> > Subject: All Fonts White > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 4:13 PM > Machine: G5 Mac Tower: Wheezy for > PowerPC64; gdm3 desktop. > > Desktop has been great since I bought the machine a few > weeks ago. But after my [apt-get update / apt-get > upgrade] last weekend, ALL text on the screen is rendered in > white - on a white background. This includes the login > splash screen, all menus on my homepage after login, all > buttons, all text on "gnome-terminal" (though xterm is okay > because it is white text on a black background), in short > ALL WHITE TEXT in any context. > > No significant ERRORs in Xorg.0.log. > > (Machine came with an OSX 10.6.8 drive - now disconnected, > but when reconnected and acting as boot disk still runs fine > with the usual desktop.) > > Searches like "X White text" or "gdm3 white text" or etc., > etc. show no results whatsoever. > > Any suggestions? Reinstall from CD? > > Thanks, > Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1358565912.8913.yahoomailclas...@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
